Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 82
Permanent hiring freeze on federal employees
Broken“[paraphrase] A hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition, exempting military, public safety and public health.”
- Promised
- , "Contract with the American Voter," Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Stated deadline
- “day one” → October 23, 2016
- Overdue by
- 9 years, 10 months as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 4 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
A hiring freeze was imposed on January 23, 2017 but lifted on April 12, 2017, replaced by agency-by-agency workforce plans. Federal civilian employment was higher at the end of the term than at the start. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting no movement since April 2017.